A man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan. File photo: AP A man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan. File photo: AP
A man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan. File photo: AP
Asia /  East Asia

Jawbone reveals how much radiation Hiroshima atomic bomb victims absorbed

With the help of two Japanese scientists in Hiroshima, Brazilian physicist Sérgio Mascarenhas obtained several samples of victims’ bones, including a jawbone that belonged to a person who was less than a mile away from ground zero 

Topic |   Legacy of war in Asia
The Washington Post
The Washington Post

Updated: 10:30pm, 3 May, 2018

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A man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan. File photo: AP A man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan. File photo: AP
A man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan. File photo: AP
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